Tag Archives: Analgesia

Long term effects of surgery in the infant

Posted on 18 June 2015 by Keith Barrington

To follow on from a study in a recent “neonatal updates”, there is a new publication from an Australian group that have been pursuing a prospective cohort of full term infants who had major surgery in the first 90 days … Continue reading →

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Recent pain/analgesia articles

Posted on 17 June 2015 by Keith Barrington

Several very recent articles have addressed issues of pain and analgesia in the newborn. van Ganzewinkel CJ, et al. Chronic pain in the newborn: toward a definition. The Clinical journal of pain. 2014;30(11):970-7. This article describes a consensus building expert-based … Continue reading →

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Neonatal Updates

Posted on 11 June 2015 by Keith Barrington

Deshmukh M, et al. Effect of gastric lavage on feeding in neonates born through meconium-stained liquor: a systematic review. Archives of Disease in Childhood – Fetal and Neonatal Edition. 2015. When I first went to one of the hospitals I … Continue reading →

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Echocardiography is painless

Posted on 11 June 2015 by Keith Barrington

Lavoie PM, et al. Oral glucose during targeted neonatal echocardiography: is it useful? Archives of Disease in Childhood – Fetal and Neonatal Edition. 2015. Echocardiography can sometimes disturb unstable babies. In this randomized controlled trial the investigators wanted to see … Continue reading →

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The Power of Parent’s Touch.

Posted on 5 December 2014 by Keith Barrington

My friend and colleague Marsha Campbell-Yeo is part of the Centre for Pediatric Pain research. She has just produced a video about controlling pain in young babies, which you can see here: My only beef is that all the parents … Continue reading →

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Pain control for intubation by trainees

Posted on 4 September 2014 by Keith Barrington

Because of my research interest in premedication for endotracheal intubation I have been asked several times to talk to groups about the subject, I have often been asked whether intubations by trainees should be premedicated, because their risk of failed … Continue reading →

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Doing research using Youtube

Posted on 12 June 2014 by Keith Barrington

When my kids went to have their immunizations we took some sucrose solution with us to the hospital (don’t ask me how we came to have sucrose solution, its a secret) and were ready to either have the immunizations done … Continue reading →

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Waving your hands around is not analgesic! Who’d have thought…

Posted on 17 March 2014 by Keith Barrington

Really, who’d have thought it was worth testing. I have a lot of respect for several of the authors of this trial, but I can’t for the life of me understand why they did this study. Celeste Johnston, Marsha Campbell-Yeo, … Continue reading →

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Pain, still bad for you

Posted on 24 February 2014 by Keith Barrington

Roofthooft DWE, Simons SHP, Anand KJS, Tibboel D, van Dijk M: Eight years later, are we still hurting newborn infants. Neonatology 2014, 105(3):218-226. The answer is yes, but much less! In this study from a single hospital in Rotterdam with … Continue reading →

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Does being ventilated hurt? It depends who you ask

Posted on 21 February 2014 by Keith Barrington

Ruth Guinsburg is a neonatologist in Sao Paulo who has been super-productive, especially in the area of pain control in the newborn. Her latest is an interesting comparison of how caregivers and parents rate pain in infants on ventilators. Elias … Continue reading →

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